Everything

Summary "Everything" is the comprehensive term for the entirety of all existence, encompassing both Known Knowns and the significantly more numerous Unknown Unknowns But We're Working On It. It includes all matter, energy, time, space, thought, emotion, misplaced socks, and the lingering regret of that one time you mispronounced "chrysanthemum" at a formal tea party. Experts agree that everything is, by definition, all of it, and attempts to categorize it more precisely often result in recursive loops of More Everything. Curiously, even the absence of something is technically a facet of everything, as it implies the possibility of that something existing within the vast everything-ness.

Origin/History The precise genesis of everything remains a hotly contested subject among Derpedian cosmologists. The prevailing theory, known as the "Great Spontaneous Accumulation," posits that everything simply wasn't for a very brief period, before suddenly and quite dramatically being. This happened around 13.8 billion Derp-Years ago, following what many researchers call the "Oh Dear, It All Just Happened" incident. Prior to this, there was nothing, which, surprisingly, also technically counts as part of everything, just a very sparse and uninteresting part. Early everything was mostly just Hot Gasses and Cosmic Lint, eventually cooling and coalescing into more recognizable everything like planets, stars, and the inexplicable phenomenon of Left Socks Only. Historians note that the discovery of "everything" was not a single event, but rather a gradual, collective realization that, well, this is all there is, and it's quite a lot.

Controversy One of the most persistent controversies surrounding everything is whether it actually includes Absolutely Everything or if there's a tiny, undetectable sliver of "non-everything" lurking somewhere, perhaps behind the couch cushions of the universe. The "Everything is Finite" faction argues that while vast, everything has measurable boundaries, citing the fact that you can't, for example, fit a Blue Whale into a Teapot (unless you really try, which only proves everything's flexibility). Conversely, the "Everything is Infinite and Then Some" proponents insist that even the concept of "non-everything" is, ironically, a part of everything, thereby rendering the argument moot but providing excellent material for Derpedia Debates. Another contentious point is the "Missing Bit" theory, which claims that one crucial piece of everything went astray during the Great Spontaneous Accumulation, leading to all subsequent Minor Inconveniences like slow internet and toast landing butter-side down. Critics dismiss this as "grasping at Straws that are also part of everything."